# Founding Research Scientist, Computer Vision (PhD) at Rudus

- Company: Rudus (YC P26)
- What the company does: AI Takeoffs for Concrete. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://rudus.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rudus/jobs/GfP0RvS-founding-research-scientist-computer-vision-phd
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rudus-founding-research-scientist-computer-vision-phd/

## About the role

You'll own the research behind our drawing-understanding stack: detecting structural and site elements on noisy real-world plan sets, pattern-matching footings and curb runs, interpreting schedules and cross-sheet details, and comparing drawing revisions. Your models ship into production and get evaluated by professional estimators on real bids — feedback loops measured in days, not review cycles.

## What they're looking for

- PhD (or equivalent research experience) in computer vision, ML, or a related field
- Track record turning research into working systems- strong Python required
- Experience with document AI, object detection, vectorized/CAD-like data, or multimodal LLMs
- Excited by messy real-world data over benchmark leaderboards

Tags: Engineering